Bøker av Hugh Chare

When a guest at a bush camp in Zambia dies of what appear to be a snake bite, Marieke Englebrecht has her suspicions and has her own theory as to the cause of death. She is asked by the Zambia Police, who she has worked with before, to assist in investigating the death and how a toxin may have been administered and then by whom. She has a slate of seven suspects, all of whom are well educated and probably quite capable of researching local toxins and methods that could be used to administer one. The suspects, all of whom are guests at the camp, are all due to leave in only two days, so it is a race against time to find something to hold them.

It is the early 20th Century and Federica Wheelwright, aided by her husband, George, has dreams and ambitions to be the first to create a commercial air service between London and Cape Town. Her dreams are interrupted by the Great War, but after the war she applies herself to the design and construction of a suitable plane. The race is on to get to the Cape first and there are several competing interests, will she be the first and will she be able to set up the commercial service in an era of considerable change in aviation not aided by a parsimonious British government who, unlike their European counterparts have taken the attitude that the fledgling airlines must sink or swim on their own.

It is 1982 and James Martin has been given a new assignment by his employers, James & Brown, to join the management team of the newly acquired Waterford Industries. James and his wife, Katrina, relocate from Wisconsin to California and embark on their new adventure. James has to explain quite often that Waterford Industries has no connection at all to the famous Waterford of Ireland who make glass. It is instead a diverse company with interests in aerospace, access and marine, new industries to James who must learn much as he takes over the company. When things are going well, there is a change in the management of James & Brown and they wish to embark in a new direction that will involve divesting some of the peripheral businesses that are not the mainstream aerospace company, giving James new challenges.